Travel Tips

As a reward for being kick-ass productive this weekend, I am drinking a glass of wine and using the amazing Destination Finder to plot some trips. Most importantly, of course, is the 2.5 years, million pages of reading, roughly 24 finals, and one ugly mother fucking bar exam away bar break trip. But late July and August are tough. We thought we'd settled on Bali...until we read all the US travel advisories against it. We generally like places that have beaches, good snorkeling/ diving, and are not too touristy (we won't be going back to Puerto Vallarta and want to avoid similar places). Thailand = monsoon season. Australia/ New Zealand = Winter. And, apparently box jellies (deadly jelly fish, thank you husband) accumulate at the Great Barrier Reef during that time. Bermuda came up a few times, but I have (probably unfair) biases against it as being an East Coast family vacation spot...

We're also trying to plan spring break for this year. Has to be on the cheap b/c we're going to Mendocino for our anniversary and Kauai for our honeymoon do-over. So basically, we're trying to pick where we want to go camping. I'm leaning towards Santa Cruz where Elephant Seals are mating (my mother today informed me that this might be awful because they are VERY LOUD). Mr. SKH is likely leaning towards Bodega so we can make use of his dad's boat if the weather's decent.